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The collection contains a club creed for the Ontario Homemaking Club Girls (typescript), as well as an oversized panoramic photograph of the winners of the Provincial Boys' and Girls' Farm Club contests at the Royal Winter Fair, Toronto, in 1932, which was under the direction of the Canadian Council on Boys' and Girls' Club Work.

Miscellaneous photographs depicting Canadian farming. Includes photos of ploughing, discing, rolling and seeding crops (some in Western Canada); harvesting and threshing grain (some in Western Canada), filling silo, farm milk cooler, cows on pasture, farm scenes, various poultry breeds, cutting and loading hay, stump pulling, lumber yard, fruit and vegetable growing and harvesting, smoking bees, apiary in St. Hyacinthe, Andy Lusk livery stable, border collie and shepherd herding sheep, Canadian Experimental Farm (Ottawa) grain plots; Hon. Manning Doherty milking Holstein cow in front of Parliament Building, Toronto, during milk campaign, Spring 1921; early reaping machine made in Fergus; Alvin Moyer?, Frank Sumner and Abraham Orth on steam engine, wagon, and threshing machine with oxen, taken on Fly Rd. overlooking field which is now Vineland Quarries Equipment near Campden (n.d.); Toronto windmill located in Wellington County area; first threshing (machine owned by Edward Best) at the new Bentham barn 1908 located in Artemesia Township south of Flesherton (copy from original along with photocopied identification of family members and threshers); unidentified group of farmers at a sale (n.d.)

The Canadian Farm Writers' Federation collection contains newsletters, executive minutes, reports, constitution and by-laws, conference information, annual meetings minutes, correspondence, awards programs, press releases, newspapers, financial information, photographs, videotapes, cassette tapes, and publicity, records.

Collection consists of several gazetteers, maps, correspondence, post office listings, name changes, personal books, and memorabilia, 1868-1991.This is the general record for the Canadian Guide Collection, see XT1 MS A0100-A0133 and XT1 MS A0301 for individual records. Include 300 volumes, 10,000 5"x2" cards, 19 boxes, 11 oversize boxes, 7 large maps. Most material for this collection is located in the Annex. See also "The Shipper's Bible: an Introduction to the Canadian Guide Collection" by G.T. Bloomfield, in Archives Reference, call number XT7 MS A001.

Fonds contains house programs.

The Canadian Potato Machinery Company collection includes advertising flyers for O.K. Canadian two-row sprayer and O.K. mammoth field sprayer; Ontario licenses, 1908-1909; transfer of patent rights for potato diggers and planters, cattle stanchions, and sprayers from Amos Rush and Otto Knoerzer, 1905-1914, 1921; correspondence, by-laws, receipts, 1909-1924; corporation information and tax statements, 1960-1966; and a book of shares, 1909-1954, 1960.

Contains an album of photographs of railway bridge contruction in Ontario, ca.1875. Record of the early days of Canadian railway construction showing the bridges with gangers, surveyors, locomotives, ballast waggons and coaches. Included are bridges over the Grand and Thames Rivers and the railway settlements at St. Thomas and Port Stanley.

Collection contains sheet music relating chiefly to the war years in Canada. Some pieces of music are stamped "O.A. College Soldiers Memorial Fund."; "Massey March" was published as a supplement and presented with Massey's Illustrated, vol. 6, no. 2 [1887]. It was dedicated to H.A. Massey, president of the Mssey Manufacturing Co., and has a picture of a man riding a horse-drawn hay mower on the front page.